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John Oswald (born May 30, 1953 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian composer, saxophonist, media artist and dancer. His best known project is Plunderphonics , the practice of making new music out of previously existing recordings (see sound collage and musical montage ).
Plunderphonics 69/96 is a two-CD compilation album by John Oswald.The album compiles most of Oswald's infamous Plunderphonics recordings, including the 1989 Plunderphonic self-released giveway album that ran afoul of the Canadian Recording Industry (), and the Elektrax promotional EP that had been originally commissioned by Elektra Records.
Plunderphonics was used as the title of an EP release by John Oswald. Oswald's original use of the word was to indicate a piece that was created from samples of a single artist and no other material. Influenced by William S. Burroughs' cut-up technique, he began making plunderphonic recordings in the 1970s.
John Oswald is the name of: John Oswald (activist) (1760–1793), Scottish philosopher, writer, and revolutionary; John Oswald (bishop) (died 1780), Anglican bishop in Ireland; John Oswald (British Army officer) (1771–1840), British general; John Oswald (composer) (born 1953), Canadian composer associated with the Plunderphonics project
Grayfolded is a two-CD album produced by John Oswald featuring new edits and re-mixes of the Grateful Dead song "Dark Star".Oswald used a process he calls "plunderphonics" to edit fragments of over a hundred different performances of the song, recorded live between 1968 and 1993, to produce two new versions of the song each lasting about an hour.
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Sheaffer later wrote that as late as 1977, Betty Hill would go on UFO vigils at least three times a week. One evening she was joined by UFO enthusiast John Oswald. When asked about Betty's continuing UFO observations, Oswald stated, "She is not really seeing UFOs, but she is calling them that."
In his review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow states "Not everything works, but overall this is a stimulating set and it is nice to hear Jarman featured in this setting." [3] The Penguin Guide to Jazz says about Jarman "Like everything he does, it is thoughtful, passionate and somewhat enigmatic, a lateral approach to fairly basic material, and a technically modest exercise in saxophone artistry."